Amazon Web Services highlight GorillaStack Auto Tag as a key tool for helping...
We’re delighted to report that GorillaStack was featured in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) presentation during the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. You can see what was said by checking out...
View Article2015 – A Review | What’s Coming Next?
New Products, Open Source Contributions & Exciting Developments What a year 2015 has been for GorillaStack. A big thank you to everyone who has supported us over the previous months, we’re looking...
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How we use Slack to dramatically reduce AWS costs
Slack is an awesome tool that we love. It makes it easy for teams to communicate with each other and with their automated systems. It can also make a great tool in the management of your AWS...
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7 Powerful Features That Will Enhance Your AWS Auto Scaling Schedules
Amazon just announced the availability of Scheduled Auto Scaling from their AWS console. Of course, Scheduled Auto Scaling is nothing new – you’ve been able to do it from the CLI for some time, but...
View ArticleZero to Hero: Understanding AWS for the Junior Developer
I can vividly recall attending my first AWS meetup in Sydney, Australia. My understanding of AWS was almost nil, and after exchanging some pleasantries with the room I sought refuge within the walls of...
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What The AWS Lumberyard Announcement Really Means For Amazon
In the last couple of days Amazon announced Lumberyard, a 3D game engine designed to operate on AWS and provide a powerful platform for developers to leverage the power of the cloud. Based on Crytek’s...
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Here’s why Amazon’s new Availability Zone is great for Australian AWS customers
Put your hands up if you’ve noticed the third availability zone (ap-southeast-2c) appear the IAM console over the last few weeks? Here at GorillaStack we doff our hats to the more eagle eye’d folks...
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Eliminate Server Overhead With This Open Source Lambda Hack
Does your organisation run batch jobs? I think I’d be hard pressed to find one that didn’t. Is the infrastructure running these batch jobs always on and highly available? Chances are you are spending a...
View ArticleReader’s Letters: What’s with GorillaStack?
As we continue to acquire new customers and more potential customers, we’re answering plenty of questions that often aren’t covered by the GorillaStack FAQ. It occurred to me the other day that, as...
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Is Virtual Reality The Next Frontier For Amazon Web Services To Conquer?
Only the keenest eyes will have noted the subtlest of hints today that Amazon is getting into the Virtual Reality business. Interestingly, this wasn’t revealed by some big Amazon announcement at one of...
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Why the Cloud is THE key technology enabler for Digital Transformation
The world is going through a digital transformation as everything — customers and equipment alike — becomes connected. Leading Digital Transformation has therefore become an imperative for...
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Why You Should Move Compute To AWS EC2 Spot Instances
Amazon are celebrating 10 years of AWS. On Amazon’s celebration page, they include an interesting insight regarding EC2 Spot Instances: “On average, every week, AWS customers are using more compute...
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This Is The Redesign That The AWS Console Desperately Needs
I’m a great believer in the Cloud, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the range of benefits it brings for companies of all sizes. But I’m going to be completely honest here, the cumbersome...
View ArticleEpilogue: Eliminate Server Overhead With Open Source Lambda Hack
We wrote in our open source aws lambda blog post on the 27th of February about the then recent support for Lambda functions that access resources within a VPC. Our perspective on that announcement is...
View ArticleRelease Notes v.0.20.0 – New Features For AWS Cost Management
At GorillaStack HQ we’re excited to announce a few new features that we’ve released. We’ve been listening to feedback from our users and shipped a bunch of enhancements that we think you’ll all enjoy....
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7 Weird Tips To Reduce Your AWS Bill
I recently attended a very insightful AWS Meet Up where Paul Wakeford (a Systems Architect at Australian media company Fairfax Media) shared some great tips to identify costs and reduce your AWS bill....
View ArticleGorillaStack launches Insights for Amazon Web Services
GorillaStack, the technology that eradicates cloud bill shock, today released ‘Insights’, a powerful new analytics tool that helps businesses quickly identify inefficiencies in their cloud deployment...
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8 Things We Learned at the AWS Sydney Summit
We were excited to have the opportunity to share GorillaStack with everyone at Sydney’s first 2 day AWS Summit. The Summit demonstrated the need for Cost Optimisation in the Cloud. Talks such as...
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GorillaStack Auto Tag Gets An Update
Of all the things I love at GorillaStack, including beer, coffee, workplace banter and of course AWS, there are two in particular that I was able to enjoy the last few nights after work; Open Source...
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AWS Lambda – Some Important Changes I’d Like To See
Recently we updated our open source project Auto Tag, a Lambda function that listens to CloudTrail to tag your AWS resources with their creator after they are created. When updating, I noticed that a...
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